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Illustration: Rob Beschizza Donald Trump was so eager for Vladi­mir Putin to attend his 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, he personally wrote the Russian President a letter inviting him. Robert Mueller’s investigative team somehow got a copy of the document. It is the first known communication that shows Trump…

Stormy Daniels’ new lawsuit against Donald Trump says their “hush agreement” is invalid because ‘David Dennison’ (the president’s sex pseudonym) never signed it.
Donald Trump never signed the nondisclosure agreement that his lawyer Michael Cohen arranged with porn performer Stormy Daniels, according to a lawsuit filed by Daniels today…

News of Trump White House speech writer David Sorensen’s resignation hit late Friday as the WaPo prepared a story on his ex-wife’s allegations of violent domestic abuse. The White House said they learned of the accusations from her on Thursday.
This is again, like the stories trailing Rob…

Stock indexes plunged on Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling by more than 600 points mid-day.
“The S&P 500 and the Dow are both on track for their biggest one-week declines in more than two years,” Reuters reports. NASDAQ is on track to post the worst week…

In what has become an annual tradition, President Donald Trump is once again suing the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser over the valuation of his Trump National Golf Club. Publicly, he boasts of massive success. But in the court papers, he demands that county officials in Palm Beach lower…

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Facebook today announced major changes to their ‘newsfeed’ which 2 billion people use monthly. Now, Facebook plans to begin asking each user to rank their trust in various news organizations. CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg today said the social media platform will prioritize “trustworthy” news outlets on your…

The U.S. Senate today passed a bill that will renew the National Security Agency’s warrantless internet surveillance program for six years with no substantive changes. It’s bad news, say privacy and security advocates, but not a surprise. The re-up gives NSA powers that were first granted in response to the…

Reuters, Aug. 2017 Stephen K. Bannon is departing his post as executive chairman of Breitbart News, the company is said to be announcing on Tuesday. His departure was forced by financial backer Rebekah Mercer, who was displeased with the quotes attributed to Bannon in Michael Wolff’s controversial new book. In…

A secret American spy satellite code-named Zuma didn’t reach orbit in Sunday’s failed SpaceX rocket launch. The cost of the missing U.S. government asset, which officially doesn’t exist and officially hasn’t been lost, is estimated to be in the billions of dollars. The highly classified payload is “presumed to be…